Arsenal have now been knocked out of the FA and Capital One Cups when fielding relatively strong starting line-ups. What does this say about our first team squad? There were no positives that came out of this game and there are no excuses that we were only able to generate two to three decent scoring opportunities against a Championship side. Our creativity and tactics are incredibly stale and we have no answer to teams who efficiently “park the bus” in front of goal. After today’s performance, I can only envision the doom that awaits us on Tuesday vs. Bayern Munich.

Arsene decided to field a veteran starting line-up in what appeared to be Arsenal’s best opportunity at lifting silverware this year. However, in typical Arsenal fashion, we started off the match very sloppy with a few misplaced passes and searching long balls to absolu...